Conference Schedule

Friday, April 22nd – LC 317. 

8:30-9:00 – Coffee, opening announcements, etc.  

Media Theory and… 

9:00-10:15  

…Political and Social Movements: 

*Navid Hassanpour (Political Science) – “Revolutions and the Media.” 

*Andrew Hannon (American Studies) – “New Media and Old Labor in the 2007-2008 Writer’s Strike.” 

*Sierra Bell (Anthropology) – “Tea Time in the Digital Age: Media, Modernity, and the Contemporary US Tea Party Movement.” 

10:30-11:45  

…Media Specificity: 

*Joy Kim (History of Art)– “Between the Filmic and the Photographic” 

*Anja Krüger (German) –“Cutting Across: Photographic Transgressions in Marianne Wiggins’s The Shadow Catcher.”

* Jan Claas Van Treeck (German) – [Title TBA] 

BREAK FOR LUNCH – 11:45-12:45  

1:00-2:15  

…Nationalism: 

*Maria Rives (Anthropology) – “Publicizing the Private or Privatizing Publics? New Media in the Context of Post-Soviet Communicative Practice.” 

*Ryan Carr (English) – “The Office of the Observer: Sequoyah, Cooper, and the Letters of their Republics.” 

*Josh Glick (Film) – “Studio Documentary in the Neoclassical Era: Wolper Productions and New Frontier Television.” 

2:30-3:45  

…Memory: 

*Michael Bustamante (History) – “Playa Girón: Shaping, Representing, and Contesting Revolutionary Memory in the Cuban Media, 1961-1977.” 

*Julia Sonnevend (ISP) – “Images We Do Not Remember: Historic Events Without Iconic Photographs.” 

*Matt Rager (English) – “The [_]Tree[_] of C[___]od[__]es: Found Narrative and The Excavation of Memory.” 

  

Saturday, April 23rd – WLH 208 

10:00-11:15  

…Regulation: 

*Kyoko Yoshinaga (ISP) – “Broadcasting in the Digital Age.” 

*Usha Chilukuri (Law School) – “John Field and the Regulation of the English Book Trade, c. 1642-68.” 

*Seeta Peña Gangadharan (ISP) – “Translation in the media ownership debate: The work of civil society groups and the Federal Communications Commission, 2002-2007.” 

11:30-12:45 

 …Print Culture 

*Carolee Klimchock (American Studies) – “Coach Drivers, Heiresses, and Sensational Sex.” 

*Julia Guarneri (History) – “Chicago Newspapers Remake their Region, 1880-1930.” 

*Maria Luengo (CCS) – “Reporting civic and anti-civic motives in Spanish news on the March 11
terrorist attack.”

BREAK FOR LUNCH – 12:45-1:45

2:00-3:15 

 …Embodiment: 

*Bo Li (English) – “Bodies in Space: Elements of Performance in Online Fan Fiction and its Communities.” 

* J. Jesse Ramírez (American Studies) – “Nietzsche’s Laughter: Nihilism, (Post)Humanism, Avatars.” 

* Charlie Veric (American Studies) – “Seeing Suffering: Witnessing and the Public Life of the Face.” 

3:30-4:45  

…Intermediality: 

*Craig Fehrman (English) – “Memoirs ‘Electronic’ and Otherwise: Promoting and Usurping Political Autobiography on Television.” 

*Claudia Calhoun (American Studies) – “‘The Story You Are About to Hear Is True:’ Dragnet and the Cultural Work of the Police Procedural.” 

*Jordan Brower (English) – “’Change the Angle, and the Image Decomposes’: Truth-Telling, False Knowledge, and the Photographic Image in the Novels of J.M.Coetzee.” 

5:00 – Faculty Roundtable Discussion - Featuring Professor Jack Balkin (Law School), Professor Francesco Casestti (Film Studies), and Professor John Mackay (Film Studies).

Wine and refreshments will be served after the roundtable.